John Fitzgerald Kennedy said "We have become more and more not a nation of athletes but a nation of spectators." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordDecember 4, 1961

We have become more and more not a nation of athletes but a nation of spectators.

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Democratic · Massachusetts

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Address in New York City at the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame Banquet.

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